Rpi 4 installation

Installation
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It works with my Samsung S9 charger. :slight_smile: I have been running it for around 15 hours now with an SSD and /boot on the micro SD, constant reboots with 2 minutes intervalts stresstesting it. Annoying that they are using two Micro HDMI instead of one regular. Who the heck will want to run two monitors from these things? Also I can’t get the SSD to work on the USB3-ports.

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Got mine up and running on the weekend. My HUSBZB stick showed up fine in /Dev/ttyUSB0 but I haven’t tried it via the integration just yet (not ready to switch off my current HA).

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What type of HUSBZB did you use? (brand - Nortek?)

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yeah, Nortek HUSBZB-1

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Shouldn’t that be
$ sudo bash hassio_install.sh -m armv7l
?

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Not needed, the -m flag is only used inside the “armv7l” branch of the case statement (which is routed into based on the value of $ARCH - a value specified by your system, not a flag). And since we were modifying the code inside that branch anyway, no need to bother with the -m flag.

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Ah, gotcha. I mis-read the editing instructions - I thought it was only change those two lines, I didn’t realize there was a whole block of code that was deleted.

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I’m getting
chmod: cannot access ‘/usr/sbin/hassio-supervisor’: No such file or directory

Any ideas?
Thanks

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I’m fully up and running and have been for a few days. No problems, the Z-Stick is on an USB 3.0 hub that’s connected to one of the USB 2.0 ports on the Pi 4. Reboot is no problem, the Z-Stick shows up every time. The weird thing here is that I am using a powered hub, and if I have power on it, the Z-Stick shows up in lsusb, but it doesn’t create the port (as shown with ls /dev/tty* which should give the result /dev/ttyACM0 somewhere in there). Without power on the powered hub everything’s good. I am using a Plexgear Desktop 500, but a no-name USB 2.0 hub works just as well. I just want to use this hub when USB 3.0 actually starts working with the Z-Stick, so I can have the USB 3.0 SSD on it as well, with only one connection to the Pi from the hub.

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Which port do you have the USB hub plugged in to? I have to unplug mine and replug it to have it detect properly

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I have it in an USB 2.0 port, at the moment the bottom one. My SSD is at the bottom USB 3.0 port. I think I checked, and it didn’t work if the hub was in one of the 3.0 ports.

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I would not be trivial but I saw that they have released the firmware for the Raspberry 4 (beta) has anyone tried it?

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Worked fine for me when I tried it. I moved back to a Raspbian install though.

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Works great for me
Running it on a rpi4 4gb
It’s really fast!!

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@fribse and others that may wonder, I have now done a testing cycle with Home Assistant and Z-Stick on my Pi4. Since this morning I have had Node-RED running a special flow on the same Pi (I have that installed anyway to run my Tellstick Duo, which I prefer the Node-RED implementation of) and connected to the same MQTT broker as Home Assistant, so every time the Z-Wave network got a signal from one of my Z-Wave thermostats Home Assistant sent an MQTT message that Node-RED received and first shut down HA and then rebooted the Pi 4. Also there was an extra routine that started a Node-RED timer or 8 minutes, and if no Z-Wave signal was received in that time, it assumed that there would be none and rebooted itself.

In 140 reboots it happened three times that Z-Wave wasn’t received within 8 minutes, and it may simply have been that none of the thermostats had a change to report in that time. The other 137 times everything worked perfectly on a reboot. The time from the reboot was sendt to the OS and until Home Assistant was up and running again was around 25-30 seconds. So SSD, Buster and Pi 4 seems to be both reliable and very fast.

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I arrived yesterday !!! RPI 4 4GB, I’m going to install the related firmware then load the snapshots of the current version, did you do so?

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Yes and it worked like a charm. But it’s beta so there are some bugs but nothing major that I noticed. I’m still waiting for the full release until I’m permanently switching over :wink:

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I am a little confused by this tread. Does this beta firmware fix the boot from SSD? I just ordered my pi4 to replace my pi3b+ which I currently boot from SSD. I would like to get that working on the pi4 before I make the switch. Also where do you get the firmware. The only link I found online was a google drive download which seems sketchy. The release only states that it addresses USB heat issues.

Probably I will just wait for an official release that addresses the SSD boot but willing to do some testing while I wait.

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How long should I be at the “preparing hass.io” screen?

It’s been at this screen for 2 hours :frowning:

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I’m new to Rpi, HA etc. and quite some time i worked with linux commands…but i followed the great guide by “hugh_man” including modifying the “hassio_install.sh”.
Everything went smooth as far as i can see, no error messages including running the modified “hassio_install.sh”.
However i cannot find hassio via http://hassio.local:8123/ or using the Rpi IP address:8123 or http://my_pi_ip:8123/?
How do i know if the hassio is running? I understand that this might be a noob question…but anyhow.

Many thanks!

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